While there are other animals that eat green crabs, their population only fell in an area of Central California when the ...

If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...

Sea otters are a rare species as humans excessively hunted them in the 18th and 19th Century. They were mainly hunted for ...

But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs in the slough she studied: furry and hungry sea otters. Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ...

Southern sea otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century for their furs, only gaining a measure of protection ...

West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...

By nurturing sunflower sea stars in captivity, researchers aim to one day restore a key predator to the Pacific Ocean.